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That’s really interesting as the as the word ’sim’ in modern farsi (persian) also mean cord or line. It seems according to wiktionary (https://en.m.wiktionary
by kaveh_h 4y ago
That’s really interesting as the as the word ’sim’ in modern farsi (persian) also mean cord or line.
It seems according to wiktionary (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic) that the Word has Proto-Indo-European roots which is the common ancestor of farsi and European languages.
I wonder if it’s possible to introspect or query the model and find out about the etymologi of words. I suspect more context like the phonetic version of each word is needed to make that final connection not just the semantic embedding.
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- woodson 4y agoI suspect (though I may be wrong) that GPT-4 wouldn't provide more insight than what's in the text it was trained on. If prompted by examples of regular sound change or reconstruction of proto-indo-european (PIE) roots, it may be able deduce other PIE word forms.